What if we just spam CNN and all the other channel's twitters with WE THE PEOPLE?

[originalpckelly]

I think eventually they would get the point, don't you? :P

144 characters is more than enough to fit the first and most important three words of the US Constitution: WE THE PEOPLE. And perhaps, "we won't take this crap anymore!"

If it won't let you post crap, say carp. That would just fuck with their heads a little.

After all, the TV networks have fallen in love with Twitter, let's hoist them on their own petard.

"We've been receiving lots of Twitter posts today with only three words, WE THE PEOPLE, and we can't figure out why it is."

:rofl:

Take this brainless toy and make it the source of a dramatic change in a short period of time.

[MineralMan]

1. Spam is spam. Besides the wingers use the same words.

How about putting stuff with content out, rather than regurgitating the same line the wingers do?

[originalpckelly]

3. Really? That's the point.

It's the one thing both sides can agree on. All the words after that in the US Constitution have been up for debate for decades now, but the one part that isn't, at least for the people not in government.

[dionysus]

2. sounds about as effective as teabagging...

[originalpckelly]

4. Aside from implying some kind of orgy, I don't see how we the people...

can be mistaken for a sex act. You might actually pay attention to the fact that there's quite a bit of arrogance of writing people off like that. The people who are in control of this country are playing us against each other.

However, I would like to point out, that the people who run this country at the top are working together. I mean, how could we interpret it any other way? The Republican President had two years of a Democratically controlled Congress to be impeached, they did basically nothing.

Torture is clearly an impeachable offense.

If they didn't impeach him, what are we to conclude? Either the people we have are totally spineless, or they are working with the Republicans. This is not an impossible thing, in fact if we look to other nations and their history, like Venezuela, then we will see that two parties can indeed form an alliance of sorts.

And now the Democratic President is basically trying to shut the investigation down. I'll eat my words if he's got something up his sleeve, but if the Democrats in Congress didn't, then why would he? He was in the Congress for the two years we had a majority. Why didn't he make noise about impeachment then? Even if he was in the Senate, he still could have made a speech about it.

Nadda, torture in general, but nothing that's actually constructive. Nothing that would have actually brought these people to justice.

No, it's clear from all the available facts that these people are at the least unwilling to prosecute and therefore totally useless, or they are working together.

WE are the Democrats, they are the people who supposedly represent us. They are Democrats only if they do the Democratic thing, and letting torture go un-impeached is an un-Democratic thing.

[anigbrowl]

6. 'we the people' doesn't mean anything by itself

It's become just a catchphrase that people resort to when they want to present themselves as 'True Americans' and like all catchphrases, is devoid of meaning when divorced from its context.

[originalpckelly]

8. That's where you're wrong.

It's not a catchphrase, it's the basis of our system of government. That's the reason all this shit has happened, because we write off something like we the people as a catchphrase, rather than realizing it is a message from the people who created this country and the US Constitution to everyone who follows.

It's like a time capsule, the people who created this country were hypocrites and they fucked up a lot of things, but they got that right.

[anigbrowl]

17. No 'we the people' isn't a message, just chest-thumping.

It could be (and is) as easily adopted by teabaggers as lefties; it begs the question 'you the people...what? 2nd amendment rights/ lower taxes? more equality? WHAT?' It's like someone waving a flag; in and of itself, it tells you absolutely nothing about what their reasons are for waving it.

[Lex]

5. Spamming.

Always funny to some people I guess.

[originalpckelly]

7. Spamming with a point.

It's not really spam, just kind of like a crowd of people shouting we the people together.

[Lex]

9. It's never spam to the person spamming.

nt

[originalpckelly]

10. The first three words in the US Constitution?

You want to equate that with:
"Buy sex pills now for $5. click here"

I don't think so.

[MineralMan]

11. Actually, it is. Since both sides use the same words,

but mean something completely different by them, they are meaningless by themselves. Saying you're angry doesn't add to their lack of meaning.

Without the remainder of the Constitution, your suggested spam is meaningless. And, since the actual content of the Constitution is so poorly known, you simply reinforce whatever limited understanding the reader has of it.

If you want to spam Twitter, an act I can find no reason to perform, try a specific, like "Single-Payer Healthcare now!"

That means something. We, the people, by itself says nothing.

[originalpckelly]

12. The reason we'll never get single payer is that we the people have no real say.

The rich people donate to the politicians, and God forbid I be tad bit suspicious about that.

While a lot of businesses might be helped by single payer, the businesses that make money off of us being sick/dying will fight tooth and nail any attempt to lower their profits. It's bound to happen, because we are all just greedy little fuckers.

And by the way, these people in power seem to have as little knowledge about the specifics of the US Constitution as most Americans. Last time I checked, there's something in there about the executive branch not making laws, enforcing them, while also acting as judge and jury.

The rest of the document is for all practical purposes dead letter. That's the only conclusion that can come about when you start thinking about how it was that torture in secret could ever happen.

The problem with this nation's leaders is that they seem to have skipped over the first three words to any of the other words that gave them powers, while also skipping over any limits on those powers.

A unilateral executive is not in the US Constitution, I don't say unitary executive, because that's just a theory to justify all this, but the executive branch has been acting all by itself in making laws. That's simply not acceptable, there are no checks and balances with that kind of system. None of us have any rights in that kind of a system.

We the people says everything to the people who own this country and think they can make all the decisions, even ones about torture, even in secret, without any say whatsoever on the part of mere mortals, like ourselves.

[MineralMan]

14. But, you see...everyone thinks that they are we the people,

and that every right-thinking person agrees with them.

As I said, out of context, the phrase has no meaning. But, hey, you're welcome to spam Twitter however you want. I won't see it.

[dolo amber]

13. I don't get it. What carp are we not taking?

[MineralMan]

15. Well, I don't take any Asian carp. It's hard to get them to bite,

anyhow. I do take European carp, but I generally release them after catching them. Some people eat carp, but I find them to be too bony for my taste.

Did you know that there are no carp native to North America? They were introduced to feed the hordes of European immigrants. That was unsuccessful, though. Once they got here and tasted our native fish, they eschewed carp.

But, I never eschew carp. The bones, again.

However, if you want a carp, I'll give a carp.

Thanks for your attention.

[Sheets of Easter]

16. I'll have to move around some of the more productive stuff on my schedule,

then I'll get back to you.